It would be interesting if the Kalamazoo-based short line moved dispatch operations to the active BO tower. The Bay Colony dispatches out of the active New Haven RR tower in Buzzard's Bay and the Reading and Northern built a "tower" for their dispatcher in Port Clinton.

Without the unionized work rules the operator is free to perform dispatch duties and the location of BO tower would make it easy to plug into the existing CTC.

NS currently operates some locals over the Amtrak segment to service customers in Niles and Michigan City - are they going to sell this to Watco as well? It strikes me that the best thing to do here is sell these services to South Shore freight, as they service mostly Michigan City customers.